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Senior-most Supreme Court judge
Justice Tirath Singh Thakur was today sworn in as 43rd Chief Justice of India
by President Pranab Mukherjee at a function in Rashtrapati Bhavan. As a Supreme
Court judge, he headed the bench which had delivered the verdict to reform
cricket controlling body BCCI in the wake of allegations of betting and
spot-fixing scandal in the Indian Premier League.Justice Thakur also headed the
bench which ordered probe into the multi-crore chit fund scam in eastern India,
also known as Saradha scam.He has also heard the multi-crore rupee NRHM scam,
in which ex-UP minister Babu Singh Kushwaha is also an accused, besides other
politicians and bureaucrats. He was appointed as a permanent judge in September
1995 and transferred to the Delhi High Court in July 2004.Justice Thakur was
appointed as acting Chief Justice of the Delhi High Court on April 9, 2008 and
on August 11, 2008, he took over as Chief Justice of the Punjab and Haryana
High Court.

Modi announce RS 1,000 cr for Tamil Nadu flood relief

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PM modi on Thursday flew to chennai to
take stock of the flood situation. Afteran aerial survey, he met with Tamil
Nadu C.M. J. Jayalalitha and announced RS. 1,000 crore for Tamil Nadu flood
relief. He said this is inaddition to the RS. 940 crore which were released by
the Centre earlier.

BSNL allows free calls, SMS for seven days

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BSNL has announced free calling and
messaging services on account of the chennai flood to it’s customers. In official
statements, BSNL announced that prepaid customers can make free voice calls and
SMS from December 2 for the next seven days. They are also entitled to 100 MB
of free Internet data.

Obama fells Modi has a clear vision for India:

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U.S. president Barack Obama who has
held meetings with P.M Narendra Modi at several occasions,has found in him a
politician who is honest and has a clear vision for India, the White House has
said. On Monday Mr. Obama met Mr. Modi in pairs on the sidelines of the United
Nation’s climate change summit. This was the sixth meeting between the two
leaders since the met first at the White House last september.

India ready to cut coal dependence if given clean-tech, funds

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India made it clear that development
of solar and wind enegry will remain its first commitment followed by hydro and
nuclear power while the rest will be from coal.Amid reports that it would be
singled out over its plans to expand coal usage to meet its enegry demands,
India made it clear that development of solar and wind enegry will remain its
first commitment followed by hydro and nuclear
power while the reat will be from coal.

Mark Zuckerberg Vows to Donate 99% of His Facebook Shares for
Charity

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Mark
Zuckerberg, the co-founder and chief executive of Facebook, announced on
Tuesday that he and his wife would give 99 percent of their Facebook shares
“during our lives” — holdings currently worth more than $45 billion — to
charitable purposes. Mr. Zuckerberg and his wife, Dr. Priscilla Chan, said they
were forming a new organization, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, to manage the
money, through an unusual limited liability corporate structure. “Our initial
areas of focus will be personalized learning, curing disease, connecting people
and building strong communities,” they wrote.